Zoho Mail setup and migration for US businesses

Zoho Mail is Zoho’s business email service. It hosts email on your own domain, with calendars, contacts, aliases, group addresses, Streams for team discussion, an admin console, mobile apps and a built-in migration tool. Higher plans add retention, eDiscovery and S/MIME.

Zoho Mail Lite costs $1 per user per month with 5 GB, or $1.25 with 10 GB, and Mail Premium costs $4, all billed yearly only. Zoho Workplace Standard costs $3 per user per month billed yearly or $4 monthly, and Workplace Professional costs $6 yearly or $7 monthly, in USD before tax. Moving your mailboxes and DNS with us is its own fixed price, written into a signed BRD before we change a record.

Yes. Zoho states that it will never serve you ads or sell your data to third-party vendors, and that applies to every plan. Zoho earns its money from subscriptions.

For most small and mid-size US businesses that mainly need email, Zoho Mail costs far less. Zoho Workplace Standard is $3 per user per month billed yearly, and Google Workspace Business Standard is $14. Retention and eDiscovery start at $4 with Zoho Mail Premium, while Google Vault comes with Business Plus at $22. If your team collaborates in Google Docs with clients all day, staying on Google can still make sense, and we’ll point that out when we look at your setup.

Choose Zoho Mail if you want reliable email on your domain at a low price, with optional file storage, chat and meetings in Zoho Workplace from $3 per user per month billed yearly. Microsoft 365 Business Basic is $7 and Business Standard is $14. Microsoft 365 makes sense if your team depends on desktop Office apps and Teams every day.

Yes. Zoho’s migration tool moves email, calendars and contacts from Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. We run a sample migration first, move everyone, switch the MX records on a quiet weekend, then run a catch-up pass so mail that reached the old mailboxes before the switch comes over too. Zoho skips duplicates.

A TXT or CNAME record to verify your domain, three MX records (mx.zoho.com, mx2.zoho.com and mx3.zoho.com for Zoho’s US data center), one SPF TXT record that includes zohomail.com, a DKIM TXT record with the key from your admin console, and a DMARC TXT record at _dmarc. We set all of them up during your Zoho Mail setup.

Yes, on Mail Premium and Zoho Workplace Professional. You can keep email for a set period even after users delete it, search across mailboxes in an investigation, and place a legal hold on the results. Mail Premium includes 50 GB of mail and 50 GB of retention storage per user.

Yes. Zoho Mail for small business starts at $1 per user per month billed yearly with Mail Lite, so a 10-person office pays $120 a year for email on its own domain. You can add Workplace plans later for the people who need files, chat and meetings.

Yes, on paid plans. Zoho Mail supports IMAP, POP and Exchange ActiveSync, so Outlook and other desktop or phone mail apps can connect. The Forever Free plan doesn’t include IMAP, POP or ActiveSync.

It depends on your mailbox count, how much mail you have, your DNS host and any extras like WorkDrive or retention rules. The signed BRD dates each step, from the sample migration to the MX switch weekend and the catch-up pass, so you know exactly when mail starts arriving in Zoho.

Yes. After go-live our Zoho Mail consultants handle admin changes, new users, aliases, DNS and deliverability questions, and Zoho Mail training for new hires, online or on-site in Southern California.

Yes. You can put people who only need email on Mail Lite at $1 per user per month and give everyone else Workplace Standard at $3 or Workplace Professional at $6, all billed yearly, inside the same Zoho Mail organization.

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